Program areas at Wakeman Boys and Girls Club
Academic success: after school program for all members k-8, with open gym time, power hour with dedicated homework space and staff, outdoor play area and frequent stem, creative arts and other special activities. Homework help is available for all grades.
Healthy lifestyles: basketball leagues and football teams provide a friendly atmosphere for coaches to work with teams of Boys and/or Girls. These teams, which consist of players with different skill levels, are taught the basics as well as good sportmanship while having fun and making new friends.
Camp: provide a summer full of indoor-outdoor, active and creative fun at our clubhouses. Offering weekly, themed, full-day camp with before and after care options as well as specialty camps and teen leadership training opportunities.
Wakeman Memorial Association, Inc. (the "Association") strives to enhance the physical, social and emotional development of area youth through programs that perpetuate sound citizenship. The Association's recreational environment provides its membership, over 1,500 Boys and Girls, with a traditional after school drop-in center, while also serving as an outlet for professionally structured activities in the following core program areas: character and leadership development, education and career development, health and life skills, the arts and sports, fitness and recreation. The Association's southport and smilow burroughs clubhouses and adjacent grounds contain gymnasiums, game rooms, multi-purpose room, craft rooms, teen lounges and outside field/play areas. The Association offers programs at mckinley school and holland hill in fairfield.